Comments on: How can I reuse or recycle very brown bananas?

By: jay

jay — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 15:32:48 +0000

freeze them. then shove them through a blender with a long mixing stick. do this long enough, and you will start to see the banana mix turn into a creamy sort of texture, like soft serve. this, my friend, is the best banana treat you’lll ever have, and you can use the brownest bananas: banana ICE CREAM. if you have even a decent blender, you should be able to mimic very closely the texture of ice cream without all the cow breast milk (i’m not comfortable with breast feeding from a barnyard animal, i don’t even breast feed from my own mother anymore, most adults don’t. but i guess all people look at are 2 things a. can i eat this without dying? b. what vitamins and minerals does it have. and they neglect c. what are the possible harmful things it does for your body, and d. where else can you get those same vitamins and minerals.)

By: HuntingWabbits

HuntingWabbits — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:41:42 +0000

Instructables is a great site.
http://www.instructables.com/id/1-ingredient-Ice-Cream/

By: Ruti

Ruti — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:42:14 +0000

oh yes, and we use the banana skins in our nappy bin – it masks the smellI’ve seen paper made of banana skin too, but I don’t know how.

By: Ruti

Ruti — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:40:06 +0000

I like to use squidgy bananas in porridge to sweeten it as it’s probably better than refined sugar. When in a semi squidgy state (not liquid!) they can be used to bind cookie mixture together, great if someone you know has an egg allergy, plus you can use less sugar in the recipe.

By: Janet

Janet — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:18:16 +0000

When you have eaten your banana, and are left with the skin give it to your guinea pigs, or rabbits they love them.

By: karen

karen — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:20:43 +0000

i use my banana skins to wipes the dust off my swiss cheese plant and some other houseplants.
the leaves are lovley and shinny

By: jess

jess — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 16:16:44 +0000

Banana Bread is much moister and yummier with dark brown bananas!!

By: Banana Lover

Banana Lover — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:21:13 +0000

I always freeze mine then make choclate overed banana’s out of them. You can buy a choclate banana making packet at the store for like 2 bucks. IT has directions and everything plus their really really goood!

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:48:45 +0000

You can make a fruit fly trap with an old banana, put a chunk of banana in the bottom of a jar, leave it a couple hours and the fruit flies will be in the jar. Put the lid on quickly and flush them with water. I once threw an old banana at an escaped potbelly pig who was rooting in my flowers. He ate it and then was chased away by the neighborhood kids trying to capture him.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:48:53 +0000

I like to discard the skins first (compost!) and then freeze them. They taste really yummy when their slightly thawed (just enough until they’re not stine hard) and add Splenda and cinnamon. Also good with frozen blue berries (and really healthy!).

By: Nancy

Nancy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:37:36 +0000

A past-its-prime banana banana is perfect for a milkshake! Peel it, freeze it, cut it into 1″ cubes, add 1 cup milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and blend. Yummy!

By: Rosalind

Rosalind — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 21:42:36 +0000

Good for tomato plants also – and presumably other members of the solonaceae family such as peppers and aubergines.

By: jgodsey

jgodsey — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:08:43 +0000

saute with butter, sugar and perhaps some walnuts….and serve with CREPES!!

By: Ariana

Ariana — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:14:49 +0000

Vinegar!

From “Zero Hour”, an epic poem of Central America’s history, by Ernesto Cardenal:

And the bananas rotting in the railroad cars.
So there’ll be no cheap bananas
And so that there’ll be bananas cheap,
19 cents a bunch.
The workers get IOUs instead of wages.
Instead of payment, debts,
And the plantations are abandoned, for they’re useless now,
and given to colonies of unemployed.
And the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica
with its subsidiaries the Costa Rica Banana Company
and the Northern Railway Company and
the International Radio Telegraph Company
and the Costa Rica Supply Company
are fighting in court against an orphan.
The cost of derailment is $25 in damages
(but it would have cost more to repair the track).

And congressmen, cheaper than mules, Zemurray used to say.
Sam Zemurray, the Turkish banana peddler
in Mobile, Alabama, who one day took a trip to New Orleans
and on the wharves saw United throwing bananas into the sea
and he offered to buy all the fruit to make vinegar,
he bought it, and he sold it right there in New Orleans
and United had to give him land in Honduras
to get him to break his contract in New Orleans,
and that’s how Sam Zemurray came to appoint presidents in Honduras.

By: Delusion

Delusion — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 13:21:51 +0000

From the Friends of the Earth Tip of the Day!

“For a rich and natural face pack for dry winter skin, mash 1 egg yolk, 2tsp almond oil and 1 ripe banana into a paste. Apply to your face and leave for 10 mins, then remove with cool water and pat dry.”

By: Helen Simonar

Helen Simonar — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 18:16:24 +0000

You can cut the bananas in 5 – 6 pieces and freeze. Later you can mix them in a blender with plain yogurt and berries (frosen or fresch) maybe add a little fruit juice and drink for breakfast. I like that breakfast it last long and is healthy.

By: Mosaik

Mosaik — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 01:02:23 +0000

Banana fritters eg
http://www.recipezaar.com/139871
The skins end up in the compost.

By: John B

John B — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:51:37 +0000

the liquid obtained from simmering 1lb of over-ripe bananas in 1 pint of water for 20 minutes then straining through a double thickness of muslin, can be added to a fruit wine recipe (to replace an equal amount of water). This will give the wine a fuller body.

By: K

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:36:06 +0000

I always make banana bread or cake with really over ripe bananas. Maybe i’m doing it all wrong…

By: Malva

Malva — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:40:40 +0000

I freeze mine once they’re brown all over. So way over ripe.

Slightly thawed bananas is all I ever use to make banana bread. When you get them out of the freezer, they’ll be completely black. When it’s time to add your cup of mashed banana (or whatever your recipe calls for), just cut a slit from one to the other and sqeeze the mush out and mix. No need to mash anything.

By: Bobbie

Bobbie — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:02:18 +0000

The first thing I would say is prevention. Once bananas get to the make bread stage and you see you are not going to make it, then freeze them.

If you fail to freeze them, then use the banana peels for your roses. Dig a little spot near your rose, lay the banana there, then cover up. It will provide potassium for the soil.